AN: Drug usage and drinking in this chapter.

PROLOGUE

Aria walked into the DiLaruentis' house to look for Alison. She was supposed to meet Alison, so they could walk over to Spencer's where they were having a sleepover in the barn behind the Hastings' house. Jason was having a party, so the house was loud and full of people when she walked in. Nobody noticed her, and she didn't mind that. She just wanted to go find Alison and leave.

When Aria got upstairs to Ali's room it was empty. She looked in Alison's closet to see if her friend was getting dressed, but she was not there. She looked in the bathrooms and all of the other bedrooms. They were all empty. Walking back downstairs Aria noticed Jason standing with a group of people. She recognized a few of them, Garrett Reynolds, Ian Thomas, and Eric Kahn. She was classmates with Eric's younger brother, Noel. She had a crush on him for a while, but that didn't last long. A few girls were hanging around them as well. One of them being Spencer's sister, Melissa. Aria didn't recognize the others.

"Jason!" Aria called trying to get his attention over the loud music. It didn't work. She walked over to him and pushed her way through the crowd surrounding him. They were all much bigger and taller than she was, so it was pretty easy to make her way through, "Jason," she tugged on his arm knowing that was the only way she was going to get his attention.

"Aria, hey," he said. He had an unopened beer in one hand and she could tell he was had been smoking weed, but he was coherent enough to keep a conversation, "What's up?" he asked setting his beer on the counter. She pulled on his arm moving him away from his friends, so he would be able to hear better.

"Have you seen Alison?" she asked him, "She asked me to come over, but she's not here," she told him.

"Nah," he said, "She left before everyone got here," Jason told her, "Why? Is something wrong?" he asked. Despite Alison's own belief, her brother did care about her.

"No," Aria said, "We were just going to hang out here until heading over to Spencer's in a little bit, but I can just go over there now," she told him.

"You can hang out here. Maybe Ali will show up," Jason said, "If not you can just head over there in a little while without her."

Aria thought for a moment before answering, "I guess," she said shrugging her shoulders.

The pair walked back over to where Jason had been standing before. Ian and Melissa were both gone. Nobody was surprised by that. Everyone there knew they were in a relationship. Aria, however, thought of a different reason why Ian may have left, and Melissa would be angry about. A reason that would explain why Alison wasn't home. She knew Ian and Alison were secretly seeing each other.

"Do you want anything to drink?" Eric asked. He was standing closest to the fridge where all of Jason's drinks were being kept. Everyone else had brought their own. Aria looked up at Jason as if asking permission. He only shrugged his shoulders.

Usually, Jason wouldn't even have let her near one of his parties, but he was a little more than slightly inebriated at the moment and for some reason didn't mind her being there.

"Sure," Aria said. A beer was taken from the fridge and handed to her. She passed it to Jason and who shook his head.

"That's for you," he told her holding a joint in his hand.

"I can't open it," she told him. He chuckled and put the joint between his lips, so he could open the bottle of beer for her. He handed the bottle back to her and let out a puff of smoke right into her face making her cough.

"Jason!" she yelled at him as she continued to cough. She had never smoked anything before and it was burning her lungs.

"I'm sorry," he couldn't help but laugh as he pulled her into a side hug, "It was an accident." He watched as Aria took a sip of beer and made a disgusted face, "That good, huh?" he asked passing the joint to Eric who was on the other side of Aria.

"It's gross," she said, "How do you drink that?" she asked but continued to drink it anyway. Jason kept his arm around her protectively noticing Garrett and Eric's eyes roaming her petit form. Garrett went to hand the joint to Aria, but Jason intercepted it.

"Nope," he said knowing that it had something other than weed in it. It was laced with something; cocaine, ecstasy, he wasn't sure, but he didn't want Aria to have it. He wasn't even sure why he was doing it, but at this point he didn't care anymore.

Aria didn't think she would have done it, but she wondered why Jason wouldn't let her. It's not like she was his responsibility. And it wasn't like she didn't feel high in here anyway with all of the smoke around her.

After drinking half a bottle of beer, she was done. It was gross, and she already had a headache from being in the house.

"Jase, can we go outside?" she asked laying her head on his shoulder.

"Yeah," he said, "Let's go out back," he told her, and they walked out the back door, "Are you doing okay?" he asked as they sat down on the back steps.

"I'm good," Aria said, "I probably smell bad and the girls are gonna wonder when I started smoking pot," she laughed.

"You don't smell too bad," Jason said smelling her shirt and then her hair, "All you have to say is you were looking for Ali and I had people over. They'll believe you," he shrugged.

"I guess," Aria said, "I really did have fun tonight, Jason," she told him, "Even if I pretty much hate your friends," she said. He laughed.

"Yeah, they're not great people," he said.

"Maybe make some changes then," she told him.

"You are a good person, Aria Montgomery," Jason said, "And you have cool hair. I never thought I would like pink before," they both laughed at the last part.

"You aren't so bad yourself," she told him.

"Eh," he responded, "I could definitely be better," he said.

"So, do it," she said, "But I've gotta go. I'll see you later. Thanks for letting me hang out with you," she said before walking around the side of the house to go to across the road to the Hastings'.

It was the middle of the night when Aria woke up on the floor of the Hastings' barn. Both Emily and Hanna were still asleep, but Alison and Spencer were gone. Aria looked at her phone and saw that it was nearly three o'clock in the morning. She woke Emily up, which in turn woke Hanna up.

"Ali and Spencer are gone," Aria said.

"What do you mean 'gone'?" Hanna asked.

"They aren't here," Aria said standing up and walking to the door of the barn. She was going to go look for the two girls. Before she even stepped foot out of the barn she saw someone walking toward her.

"Ali!" she called out.

"She's gone," Spencer said when she got closer to the barn.

"What do you mean she's 'gone'?" Aria asked repeating what Hanna had asked earlier.

"I've looked everywhere for her," Spencer said, "I think I heard her scream."

AN: Okay, so I changed some stuff with my story. The first few chapters are going to be pretty much the same, but then it might go a little off track. I will be starting from the middle of season 2 now. Again, if there are any episodes you would really like to see in this story let me know. Give me the season and episode number.

Also, please vote on the poll on my profile page.

ALSO, I could use a beta reader if anyone is interested for typos and grammar mostly. There will be some plot holes with how this story is set up, so I won't need help with that.